{"id":18167,"date":"2019-12-19T22:57:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T22:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=18167"},"modified":"2019-12-19T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T22:58:00","slug":"the-future-of-postsocialism-eastern-european-perspectives-edited-by-john-frederick-bailyn-dijana-jelaca-and-danijela-lugaric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=18167","title":{"rendered":"The Future of (Post)Socialism: Eastern European Perspectives. Edited by John Frederick Bailyn, Dijana Jela\u010da, and Danijela Lugari\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"

Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.<\/em><\/p>\n

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If socialism did not end as abruptly as is sometimes perceived, what remnants of it linger today and will continue to linger? Moreover, if postsocialism is an umbrella term for the uncertain times of various transitions that followed in socialism\u2019s wake, how might the \u201cpost\u201d be rendered complicated by the notion that the unfinished business of socialism continues to influence the trajectory of the future? The Future of (Post)Socialism<\/em> examines this unfinished business through various disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches that seek to illuminate the postsocialist future as a cultural and social fact. Drawn from the fields of history, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, education, linguistics, literature, and cultural studies, contributors analyze various cultural forms and practices of the formerly socialist cultural spaces of Eastern Europe. In so doing, they question the teleology of linear transitional narratives and of assumptions about postsocialist linear progress, concluding that things operate more as continued interruptions of a perpetually liminal state rather than as neat endings and new beginnings.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis volume uniquely brings together a range of disciplines, beyond anthropology as the conventional discipline for exploring postsocialism, and a range of cases across post-Soviet space. Most importantly, it refreshingly engages with an exciting framework dealing with time and space. Its talk about futures\u2014the futures of socialism and the futures of postsocialism\u2014is a novel aspect that sets it apart.\u201d \u2014 Johanna Bockman, author of Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism<\/em><\/p>\n

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John Frederick Bailyn<\/strong> is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, State University of New York, and the author of The Syntax of Russian<\/em>. Dijana Jela\u010da<\/strong> teaches in the Film Department at Brooklyn College and is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema<\/em>. Danijela Lugari\u0107<\/strong> is Assistant Professor of East-Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the coeditor (with Jela\u010da and Ma\u0161a Kolanovi\u0107) of The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

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List of Illustrations<\/p>\n

Preface<\/p>\n

Acknowledgments<\/p>\n

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Introduction: The \u201cRadiant Future\u201d of Spatial and Temporal Dis\/Orientations<\/p>\n

Dijana Jela\u010da and Danijela Lugari\u0107<\/p>\n

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Part I. New Approaches to (Post)Socialism: The Theory in Transition<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. The Endless Innovations of the Semiperiphery and the Peculiar Power of Eastern Europe<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    David Ost<\/p>\n

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    1. Socialist Future in Light of Socialist Past and Capitalist Present<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      David M. Kotz<\/p>\n

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      1. \u201cFailing the Metronome\u201d: Queer Reading of the Postsocialist Transition<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Jelisaveta Blagojevi\u0107 and Jovana Timotijevi\u0107<\/p>\n

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        Part II. (Post)Socialist Space(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. \u201cBrand\u201d New States: Postsocialism, the Global Economy of Symbols, and the Challenges of National Differentiation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Robert A. Saunders<\/p>\n

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          1. Putting the \u2018Public\u2019 in Public Goods: Space Wars in a Post- Soviet Dacha Community<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Olga Shevchenko<\/p>\n

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            1. Baku\u2019s Soviet Vnye: The Post- Soviet Creation of a Soviet (?) Past<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Heather D. DeHaan<\/p>\n

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              Part III. Memories of the Future<\/strong><\/p>\n

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              1. Back to the Future of (Post)Socialism: The Afterlife of Socialism in Post- Yugoslav Cultural Space<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                Ma\u0161a Kolanovi\u0107<\/p>\n

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                1. In Friction Mode: Contesting the Memory of Socialism in Zagreb\u2019s Marshal Tito Square<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  Sanja Potkonjak and Nevena \u0160krbi\u0107 Alempijevi\u0107<\/p>\n

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                  1. The Futures of Postsocialist Childhoods: (Re)Imagining the Latvian Child, Nation, and Nature in Educational Literature<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                    Iveta Silova<\/p>\n

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                    Afterword<\/p>\n

                    Gary Marker<\/p>\n

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                    Contributors<\/p>\n

                    Index<\/p>\n

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                    https:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-6640-the-future-of-postsocialism.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

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